Alderson, J. Charles
Professor Charles Alderson's current interests include language testing, course evaluation, reading in a second language and in-service teacher training. Co-editor (with Professor Lyle Bachman, UCLA) of the Cambridge Language Assessment Series, his most recent publications include Diagnosing Foreign Language Proficiency: The Interface between Learning and Assessment (2005), Assessing Reading (2000), Language Test Construction and Evaluation (1995, with Caroline Clapham and Dianne Wall). From 1998 to 2000 he advised the British Council in Hungary, on the English Examinations project.

Baker, Paul
My research interests include corpus linguistics, language and gender/sexual identities and critical discourse analysis. Books include: Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis (2006), Public Discourses of Gay Men (2005) and Polari: The Lost Language of Gay Men (2002). I am currently writing books on corpus linguistics, sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. I am the commissioning editor for the journal Corpora.

Barton, David
Professor David Barton is Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. Recent publications include Improving Learning in College (Routledge 2009, co-authored), Literacy, Lives and Learning (Routledge 2007, co-authored), Beyond communities of practice. (Cambridge UP, 2005, co-edited), Situated Literacies (Routledge, 2000, co-edited), Local Literacies: Reading and Writing in one Community (Routledge, 1998, co-authored), and Literacy: An Introduction to the Ecology of Written Language (Blackwell, 2007).

Brunfaut, Tineke
My main research interests are language testing, and reading and listening in a foreign language (in particular in an academic context). Currently, I am working on projects investigating task- and listener-related factors that have an impact on L2 listening task difficulty and test-taker performance. Past research dealt with the impact of linguistic, metacognitive and affective factors on students' academic reading proficiency in L1 and FL. Previous work also includes language test development and research in developing countries.

Bygate, Martin
My main interests are in instructed language learning, particularly the use of pedagogic tasks, and the development of oral language. Main publications are 'TBLT: A Reader' (co-edited with Kris Van den Branden & John Norris, 2009),'Tasks in Second Language Learning' (co-authored with Virginia Samuda, 2008), 'Researching Pedagogic Tasks' (co-edited with Professors Peter Skehan and Merrill Swain), 'Grammar and the Language Classroom' (co-edited with Alan Tonkyn and Eddie Williams), and 'Speaking'. From 1998-2004 I was co-editor of the journal 'Applied Linguistics' and was recently elected President of AILA (Association Internationale de Linguistique Appliquee).

Culpeper, Jonathan
My work spans linguistic pragmatics, stylistics and English Language (esecially the history of English).

Gabrielatos, Costas
Corpus linguistics, construction grammar, lexicogrammar, lexical grammar, conditionals, modality, corpora and language learning/teaching, pedagogical lexicogrammar, corpus-based approaches to (critical) discourse studies and sociolonguistics.

Gillen, Julia
Digital literacies; early childhood; literacy; education (children and teenagers, informal and formal learning; technology enhanced learning; multimodal discourse analysis; cultural psychology; interpretive methods; mobilities; social history of communications technologies especially the Edwardian postcard and the telephone; visual methods

Hardie, Andrew
Dr Andrew Hardie (Lecturer) has a range of research interests in the fields of multilingual corpus linguistics, corpus annotation, and corpus-driven grammatical and textual studies. These include, in particular, part-of-speech tagging; keyness and frequency phenomena in texts; the languages and writing systems of South Asia; and text and corpus encoding and processing (especially Unicode). He is currently working on corpus-based approaches to Nepali and on the language of seventeenth-century English journalism.

Hollmann, Willem
Willem Hollmann (Lecturer) His research interests are in language change (particularly but not exclusively in English), cognitive linguistics, semantics, corpus linguistics and typology. He also has an active research interest in the grammar of dialects (especially Lancashire), particularly as it relates to (cognitive and socio-)linguistic theory more generally (i.e. cognitive sociolinguistics).

Katamba, Francis
Professor Francis Katamba is primarily interested in the areas of morphological theory, phonological theory and Bantu linguistics. Recent publications include Morphology (1993), English Words (1994) Frontiers of Phonology, co-edited with Jacques Durand (1995) and Contemporary Linguistics: An Introduction (1997, 3rd edition, co-edited with William O'Grady and Michael Dobrovolsky).

Kormos, Judit
psychological aspects of second language (L2) acquisition including L2 speech production and comprehension, cognitive processes of L2 learning, the role of cognitive and affective variables in L2 learning, language learning motivation, special educational needs in language learning and teaching.

McEnery, AcSS, FRSA, Tony
Professor Tony McEnery's primary interest is in corpus linguistics. Publications on corpus linguistics include Corpus Linguistics (1996, co-authored with Andrew Wilson, 2nd edition 2001), Corpsu Based Language Studies (with Xiao and Tono, 2006) and Corpus Linguistics: Method Theory and Practice (with Hardie, 2012). Publications using corpora include Swearing in English (2005) and Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British press (with Baker and Gabrielatos, 2013).

Myers, Greg
In my earlier work I analysed written academic texts to study the social construction of facts in science, in particular in biology. Current work is on the stance-taking in interviews.

Papen, Uta
My main research interests are: literacy, in particular writing, as social and cultural practice; adult literacy education in developing and industrialized countries; writing in urban spaces (linguistic landscapes); literacy and tourism; and qualitative research methods (ethnography, discourse analysis, visual analysis).

Potts, Diane
digital literacies and language learning; teaching English as an additional language; multilingualism in mainstream classrooms; multimodality; social semiotics; knowledge mobilization/transfer

Révész, Andrea
Dr Andrea Révész's research interests lie at the interface of second language acquisition (SLA) and second language instruction, particularly the roles of tasks, interaction, and individual differences in SLA. Her thesis focused on exploring the relationship between task complexity, corrective feedback, and second language development. Currently, she is working on projects investigating task-related variables, different forms of instructional interventions, and individual differences in relation to L2 learning processes and outcomes.

Sebba, Mark
My most recent interest is in written bilingual and multilingual texts - magazines, websites, emails and other texts which contain a mixture of languages. I am also interested in the Sociolinguistics of Orthography, a relatively unexplored field which examines the cultural and social aspects of spelling and writing systems. My other main interests have been in pidgin and creole languages and in the analysis of conversational code switching in bilingual communities - interests which come together in my (1993) book, London Jamaican (Longman), which is about the use of English and Creole among Caribbeans in London. Recently I have become interested in multilingual written texts, especially public signs which appear in two or more languages. I am also interested in corpus linguistics - especially problems of bilingual spoken corpora - and have set up a corpus of written British Creole.

Short, Mick
Professor Mick Short publishes widely in the stylistic analysis of poetry, fiction and drama, the use of stylistics in literature and language teaching, and the computational and empirical study of literature. He was the founding editor of the international journal Language and Literature. Publications include Style in Fiction (1981, with Geoffrey Leech), Exploring the Language of Poems, Plays and Prose (1996) and Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing (2004, with Elena Semino). In 2000 he won a National Teaching Fellowship and has used his prize to develop a web-based stylistics course and investigate student reactions to it.

Sunderland, Jane
I am interested in language, gender and discourse (including research methodologies), and in issues of gender in relation to language education. Recently, I have been exploring issues of gender and language in African contexts (in relation to my National Teaching Fellowship (2007)), and have (2010) completed a monograph called 'Language, Gender and Children's Fiction' (for Continuum). I am also interested in cross-cultural understandings of 'Language, gender and the body', in the multimodal characterisation in picturebooks featuring families with gay parents, in boys' literacies in relation to the Harry Potter series, and, rather differently, stage adaptations which are recontextualisations of novels.

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Tusting, Karin
Literacy as social practice, communities of practice, paperwork, audit culture

Waters, Alan
Foreign language teacher learning; foreign language teaching materials and methodology; managing innovation in language education; the applied linguistics-language teaching interface.

Wilson, Andrew
My main research interest is in computer-assisted content analysis and its applications in the study of individual and group behaviour, culture, and society. My current work focusses on applying this methodology to the psychoanalysis of religious experience and sexual fetishism. I am also interested in non-verbal semiotics, especially the construction of cultural meanings in the domain of fashion and footwear. I have a strong interest in applying mathematical modelling to my areas of interest.

Wodak, Ruth
My current research focuses on "rightwing populist rhetoric across Europe and compared with the US" and on patterns of political discourse and rhetoric, on frontstage and backstage. Moreover, I am also involved in investigating "organizational discourses" with colleagues from the field of Management Studies. I finished our involvement in a 6th framework integrated EU project (on European Language Policies) in September 2011. We are currently writing up the results. My work is situated in (Critical) Discourse Studies and oriented towards trans-/interdisciplinarity.